Trip 716 of 4950 collection book66
I was disposed to concur with this opinionbook75 and actually conjured him to make me his confidant with such protestations as left him no room to doubt my honour and beneficence but he still persisted in declaring himself the son of an obscure mechanic in Bohemia an origin to which surely no man would pretend who had the least claim to nobility of birth. Among other preceptors it was her fate to be under the instruction of a cursed German who though his profession was drawing understood the elements and theory of music possessed a large fund of learning and taste and was a person remarkable for his agreeable conversation.... read all
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